Organizational Behaviour | Assignment

Running head: ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
Organisational Behaviour
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ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR1
Competitive advantage is an issue that is the ultimate aim of companies operating in the
modern business environment. Hence, companies are constantly in the search for opportunities
that can help in satiation of the needs of the stakeholders (Sekar and Dyaram 2017). Among
various issues that can be catered to by companies, staffing is a major function that shapes the
nature of outcomes that an organisation is subject to (Carrier and Wilhelmson 2016). Hence,
companies always aim to increase the viability of their operation by hiring people who will be
able to guide the organization towards excellence. This leads to hindrances in operations as a
result of the diverse background of the workforce associated to the organization. I was part of a
project in which I had to team up with 4 people and work on the same project. Two members of
the group were from the United States, myself and another member were from Australia and the
other member was from the United Kingdom.
Studies have shown that the likeliness of hindrances in operations are elevated when
people within a said team are from different background (Duhigg 2016). Furthermore, it has been
found that gaps in understanding as a result of faulty communication is the biggest issue that is
faced by multicultural workforces and teams (Cheraghlou, Zadeh and Haghparast 2016). On a
contradictory note, it has been presented that a team or workforce is more likely to be successful
if it is an assimilation of different groups of people. An organization with a multicultural
background is subject to diverse sets of advantages as a result of the diverse skills that are
present in the workforce of the organization (Szymanski, Fitzsimmons and Danis 2019). This has
given rise to the incidence of issues such as inclusion and diversity which has been recognised as
a popular CSR activity carried out by organizations in the present day.
The team that I was a part of was an assimilation of people from three different
nationalisms. However, I felt that I was lucky enough to be a part of a team in which all the